Quotes About Effort

If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don't participate, you are already a loser.

A goal without action is like a late night dream.

Winning is something, but participation is everything.

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Let us not look at the talents we wish we had or pine away for the gifts that are not ours but instead do the best we can with what we have.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.